RSS Feedchecker 2.0 / PHP 8 – Release Notes

The latest V2.0 version should be fully functional in PHP 8. I’ve been testing on 8.3. Let me know if you find any issues.

DO NOT UPGRADE if you are using PHP 7 or earlier. The version 1.1 should work on that platform and I’ve been using that successfully with WordPress 6.9.

The functionality is almost identical to the previous versions. No major new features to learn or stepping outside what the plugin was designed to do.

Code is pretty similar to previous versions.

Needed to swap over to __construct() rather than named constructors on the classes.

Static keyword was needed all over the place to suppress the warnings where the methods were being called statically e.g. “self::pretty_date”.

get_server_load was simplified as that seems to be pretty much supported now. If anyone needs to more complex version, happy to retro fit that back in.

Dates have all been swapped to gmdate() so for those not on GMT you might see there is a bit of a lag before it catches up. But the idea is that we shouldn’t be depending on the localised date except for display.

Other than that it was just a case of working through all the warnings.

To show the date ordered list of blogroll links there is still the widget and shortcut (see readme). If like me you want to render the whole list of blog links then I can recommend. Blogroll Block by Michael Beckwith. Like this plugin, does one thing simply and well.

The “target” feature request by pipandmick and some others has been properly implemented now. It will use the target of the underlying link for both the specific page and the home link.

• This topic was modified 3 months, 3 weeks ago by Workshopshed.